The wrong ‘cuts’

The BBC reports today that the Ambulance Service in Northern Ireland is to be forced to make efficiency cuts that will directly affect frontline services.
With a projected budget decrease of £1.5 million over the next three years the result, naturally, is that the Service has to cut the amount of time ambulances are available to take people to [...]

A little more guilt might be appropriate…

According to the BBC Northern Ireland web site Sinn Fein’s Conor Murphy and the UUP’s Danny Kennedy have difficulty mustering regret for giving character references for two men convicted on Thursday of multi-million pound tax evasion.  The stated reason by Messers Murphy and Kennedy for lack of contrition was the fact that the two convicted [...]

BBC Refuses To Allow Local Conservatives on BBC NI Let’s Talk Panel

While the BBC has invited Conservatives onto the BBC NI Let’s Talk panel in the past, invites have not been extended to senior members of the local Party.  The producer of Let’s Talk has made clear in correspondence that Conservatives based here are not welcome on the Let’s Talk panel: thereby denying the NI viewing public of local [...]